Rachel Gay

Rachel Gay is a mental health nurse with more than thirty years’ experience in public mental health. Her work has included clinical care, community and homelessness services, and direct work with families and consumers, as well as roles focused on system and process change.Influenced by her own lived experience of neurodiversity, she brings a compassionate, evidence-informed approach to understanding behaviour, regulation, and change.Her writing blends clinical insight with practical, humane support for parents, educators, and professionals working in real-world settings.She is the founder of House of Sharky, guided (with varying degrees of cooperation) by a small but determined poodle. More at houseofsharky.com.